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That's why this year we are committed to turn moderation on Telegram from an area of criticism into one of praise,
For any questions about Durov’s decisions on which side he prioritises in this matter, please contact his lawyers,
Zakharova told the RTVI outlet While 99.999% of Telegram users have nothing to do with crime, the 0.001% involved in illicit activities create a bad image for the entire platform, putting the interests of our almost billion users at risk,
the Russian-born tech entrepreneur wrote It's good that Durov is starting to take content moderation seriously but, just like Elon and other tech CEOs who run speech platforms have found, if he thinks this will be as simple as making a few small changes, he's in for a rude awakening."
Katie Harbath, a former public policy director at Meta who now advises companies on technology issues, said I was told I may be personally responsible for other people's illegal use of Telegram, because the French authorities didn't receive responses from Telegram,
Building technology is hard enough as it is. No innovator will ever build new tools if they know they can be personally held responsible for potential abuse of those tools,
Using laws from the pre-smartphone era to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third parties on the platform he manages is a misguided approach,
I hope that the events of August will result in making Telegram — and the social networking industry as a whole — safer and stronger,
the tech entrepreneur said Wow looks like Telegram was forced to bend to the new world order."
When companies like Telegram are forced to bend, we lose essential freedoms bit by bit."
Another voiced worries about the erosion of free speech, stating So now these tyrants want to read users private messages. Yet with government literally everything is classified and off limits."
The sentiment was echoed by another user who warned Telegram’s abrupt increase in user count to 950 [million] caused growing pains that made it easier for criminals to abuse our platform,
If a country is unhappy with an Internet service, the established practice is to start a legal action against the service itself,
But the claims in some media that Telegram is some sort of anarchic paradise are absolutely untrue,
There' ... All Telegram chats and group chats are private amongst their participants. We do not process any requests related to them.” ... All Telegram apps have 'Report' buttons that let you flag illegal content for our moderators — in just a few taps.”
Previously, the answer to the question ... The updated answer now says Sometimes we can’t agree with a country’s regulator on the right balance between privacy and security. In those cases, we are ready to leave that country. We've done it many times,
He then said ... giving the examples of Russia and Iran We take down millions of harmful posts and channels every day."
That's why I made it my personal goal to ensure we significantly improve things in this regard,